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John E. McClurg
Alma mater
UCLA
EmployerBlackBerry|Cylance
TitleChief Security Officer

John E. McClurg is an American security and counterintelligence professional. He spent his early career with the US government, serving as both a supervisory special agent and branch chief for the

Lucent, Honeywell, Dell, and currently BlackBerry|Cylance
.

Education

John McClurg received his JD from

UCLA.[1]

FBI and CIA career

McClurg began his career working in the intelligence community, working for the FBI, where he co-created what became the

Department of Homeland Security. At the FBI McClurg was a supervisory special agent and served on one of the US's first Joint Terrorism Task Forces.[1] One of his tasks while working as a special agent in Los Angeles was to bring down hacker Kevin Poulsen,[2] also known as "Dark Dante".[3] As a result of that effort McClurg developed techniques for combatting converged security risks that integrate both physical and cyber threats.[4] This led to McClurg's development of the "Converged Risk Assessment Model" of cyber/physical security.[5] McClurg was involved in the capture and prosecution of Poulsen,[6] and was also responsible for efforts that resulted in the capture of CIA double agent Harold James Nicholson.[7] He was also involved in real-world security operations against Mexican drug cartels and other organized criminals.[8]

McClurg also served as a cybersecurity branch chief who developed the cyber-counterintelligence program for the U.S. Department of Energy's newly founded Office of Counterintelligence. He was also a deputy branch chief for the CIA, helping to establish the CIA's Counter-espionage Group. In the mid-2000s, after entering the corporate world, McClurg co-chaired the Overseas Security Advisory Council of the

U.S. State Department and was a member of the FBI's Domestic Security Alliance Council.[1]

Business career

McClurg served as the vice president for security at Lucent Technologies/

Bell Laboratories in the mid-2000s.[9] He later became the vice president and chief security officer of Global Security at Honeywell, where he developed strategic focus and tactical operations for cyber and physical security.[1] He was also working on an early Advanced Persistent Threat program, before moving to Dell Inc in 2011,[8] where he became the vice president and chief security officer of Dell's Global Security Organization.[10] At Dell he developed what he called the Business Assurance Program, which was designed to determine the likelihood of a trusted insider employee or worker of acting against their interests—such as engaging in spying.[2]

Writing

John McClurg has contributed to publications including Security Magazine

Information Week.[12] He has also served as a keynote speaker on security issues at industry conferences.[5]

Recognition

In 2008 McClurg was named a Compass Award winner for leadership in the security industry by Chief Security Officer Magazine,[1] and he has been named to the "25 Most Influential in the Security Industry" list for Security Magazine.[13] He was also twice decorated for his work with the FBI.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Mary Brandel (May 2008). "Compass Awards 2008". Chief Security Officer Magazine. p. 34.
  2. ^ a b Jackson, Brian (31 October 2014). "Former FBI agent creates system to predict insider threats at Dell".
  3. ^ "Turns out Wargames' nuclear scenario is real". Information Age.
  4. ^ "How to Build a Strategic Defense with IT Integration". www.securitymagazine.com.
  5. ^ a b "The New Norm: Information Assurance". www.sdmmag.com.
  6. ^ Allen, Mary (March 28, 2014). "Dell security chief on the "three Cs"". InsightaaS.
  7. ^ Doyle, Kirsten (September 19, 2014). "Taking security to a new level". ITWeb.
  8. ^ a b c "Dell CSO: What do Mexican drug cartels, Romanian acrobats and a soccer dad all have in common?". ARN.
  9. ^ Rapp, Ellen (February 15, 2004). "Demand for Workers Surges In Policing Cybertechnology". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  10. ISBN 9780128009086
    – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "John McClurg". www.securitymagazine.com.
  12. ^ "AI Ethics Guidelines Every CIO Should Read". InformationWeek. 7 August 2019.
  13. ^ "Dell Appoints John McClurg as Chief Security Officer for Dell Global Security". www.securitymagazine.com.
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